[daip] Exabyte to DAT conversion

[Eric Greisen]

Sebastien Blais-Ouellette writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > We no longer have machine running AIPS that has a Exabyte reader. What
 > would be the best way to transfer my data from Exabyte to DAT tape. A
 > simple dd? What blocking-factor?

FITS uses n * 2880 with n = 1 through 10.  The default in AIPS is 10.
dd should work but I think you might want to use whatever is on the
input tape.  Perhaps the 28800 would be fine.

Eric Greisen